Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day. Noah and Jeo each prayed with me to receive Jesus today and I bought some N95 masks incase the Corona virus comes to town. Hey they sell them at Home Depot. I can always use them in the shop if the end of the world passes us by unscathed.

Noah was sitting in a first floor lounge that is on the corner on the North side of the BIC just down the hall from where I use a locker. He was wearing grey sweats and a t-shirt with a designer name on it, glasses and a 3 day growth of beard with a mustache that gapped at the beard line. He had really short brown hair like a military look. Not a big guy. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Because all through my life I believed in you. I believe that having a belief in life is important as opposed to not having anything to look up to.” He had been going to a Catholic church but his family left over too many guilt trips he said. He thought he had a 90% chance of going to Heaven and his mom was very spiritual and he asked her a lot of questions. He was very receptive to the Gospel and knew Jesus had died for our sins. When I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven or thought something else he said, “Yeah be forgiven.” So I said if he wanted to place his trust in Christ there was a prayer he could pray and I walked him through it and said he could pray it silently so only God could hear, “Wanna do it?” I asked and he nodded yes and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. We talked some more. He was very interested in spiritual things and he thanked me. When I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died he’d said, “Get in touch with God, more understanding, more understanding of the Bible.” So I was grateful God called him in. I gave him a creation magazine and a Bible study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. He said he’d had a hard time understanding the Bible but I said the Spirit would help him now to understand things if he would ask, By the Spirit’s power, explaining the Christian life to him. We talked for a while and as I got up to go I said something like good to meet ya he said, “Nice to meet ya too, thank you again for all this stuff.” “You’re welcome,” I replied and I headed out.

I was walking on the third floor of the BIC a couple hours later passing a vending machine lounge where a few kids have prayed to receive Christ on the southeast corner. I felt prompted to go back and talk to a black guy who was buying something at one of the machine. As I walked back up to him he returned to his backpack and picked it up to leave with his orange soda across the room, so I just walked up asked him if he wanted to do a student survey and he said sure and sat back down. Jeo (pronounced Geo) had mostly a chin beard for facial hair, kind of scraggly and thin on the cheeks a slight mustache. He had a wide angular nose and was wearing a winter cap. He had grey sweats on tight at the ankles and a light blue runners zip up jacket. He said he did not go to church anymore but read the Bible on his own and prayed regularly, I think he said each day. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “Because my entire personality, my being, is for helping others. God’s way is to help others not just help yourself.” I said that was true. He was sure he was going to Heaven. I explained the Gospel to him and he knew Jesus had died for his sins but had not been trusting in it. He liked the illustrations I gave him and he said, “Are you a pastor, you should be a pastor if you were my pastor I’d go to church but they talk so slow and are so boring.” I told him I was a pastor but I like doing evangelism because I could say whatever I wanted and not get grief from people who listened. Then I finished doing through the Gospel with him I asked if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or thought something else and he said, “I’d rather be forgiven,” with a grin. So I walked him through the prayer explaining it and I asked if he wanted to pray it silently and he said, “Trust me I just prayed it.” So that was great we hit it off and I explained the Christian life to Him asking for God’s help in everything and living by the Spirit’s power. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven’ in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do and “Just Ask”. He took a Bible Study and we talked for a while, about 25 minutes. He was a solid guy, played rugby and wanted to visit New Zealand. He got up to head to the Library and said, “God bless you.” I said, “you too,” and gave him directions he’d asked for and I headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob